The phrase "a year of labor" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a specific period of time dedicated to work or effort, often in a formal or literary context.
Example: "After a year of labor, the project was finally completed and ready for presentation."
Alternatives: "a year of work" or "a year of effort".
"A single piece can easily take from 200 hours up to a year of labor".
The credenza had taken him a year of labor, some 2,000 hours, mostly between 9 p.m. and 3 a.m., he said, adding, "It's therapy".
After a year of labor unrest, runaway discounting and rising energy costs, the costs associated with these upgrades seem minor.
In a year of unremitting labor, Democrats now turn toward the final phase of their most arduous task of all.
His kindly father is caught stealing food for his hungry family and is sentenced to a year of hard labor.
And the Chinese government, which last year sentenced a woman to a year of hard labor for a sarcastic three-word tweet, appears to suffer from an acute case of humor deficiency.
Each year the California corps — whose motto is "Hard work, low pay, miserable conditions... and more!" — employs more than 1,300 young people between the ages of 18 and 25 for a year of hard labor in far-flung corners of the state.
Now, after a year of tireless labor, New York is finally on the verge of establishing the final death toll. 1 Connecticut Priests Rebuked Two Fairfield County priests were admonished by the Bishop of Bridgeport for failing to tell church officials the whereabouts of a fellow priest who is accused of sexually abusing more than a dozen children.
When I finished, I thought that after a year of manual labor, maybe I should work more with my head.
A household servant who killed his master could be sentenced to death, while a master who killed his servant would be arrested and forced into a year of hard labor for the state.
Fat Cat Tuesday is the day – Jan . 2 2018 – on which the boards of directors of America's biggest corporations handed their CEOs more money than those same CEOs would deign to pay their workers for an entire year of labor, 260 days.
